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Airbus chooses G Suite for its digital transformation strategy By James Walker Airbus is to abandon Microsoft Office in favour of Google's G Suite. The decision is a significant win for Google, which is currently competing head-to-head with Microsoft for cloud productivity dominance. The move will affect over 130,000 Airbus workers.

Microsoft says Cortana will become 'ubiquitous digital assistant' By James Walker Microsoft has publicly addressed the scepticism around its Cortana assistant. The company's rival to Alexa and Google Assistant has been left exposed after CES. It has only a handful of third-party integrations and consumer use is thought to be low.

Microsoft launches new education PCs and apps from $189 By James Walker Microsoft's announced a renewed push into the education sector for 2018. The company's launched a new range of Windows 10-powered PCs for the classroom, accompanied by improved software capabilities across its education and productivity suites.

Microsoft adding LinkedIn-powered 'Resume Assistant' to Word By James Walker Microsoft has announced a new feature for Word that helps you craft your resume using examples from LinkedIn. It's one of the first integrations between Office and LinkedIn since Microsoft acquired the company for over $26 billion.

Microsoft's Outlook.com Premium gets folded into Office 365 By James Walker Microsoft has quietly announced the end of its Outlook.com Premium email service less than nine months after it launched. The subscription gave customers their own domain and an ad-free inbox. Some features are now being added to the regular Outlook.com.

Bank of America embarks on cloud-first digital transformation By James Walker Bank of America announced it's embracing a cloud-first digital transformation supported by Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The organisation said it will be a "digital leader" in financial services, adopting cloud systems to help it grow its business.

Bing for Business helps companies make sense of their data By James Walker Microsoft has announced Bing for Business, a new intelligent search service aimed at enterprise users. It expands the company's consumer-facing Bing search engine with Microsoft Graph integration, letting it deliver organisational results.

Adobe and Microsoft team up for 'the future of work' By James Walker Adobe and Microsoft have announced a partnership designed to define the "future of work" through digital transformation. The two productivity companies are pushing a strategic alliance that will see them work together to digitally transform workforces.

Does Microsoft's massive Office 365 spell the end for startups? By James Walker Microsoft's efforts to make Office 365 the only cloud solution businesses could mean it's "curtains" for rival startups. The CEO and co-founder of data transfer company Egress said startups are being threatened by Microsoft's rapid cloud expansion.

Microsoft announces partnership with BMW to put Skype in your car By James Walker Microsoft has commenced another partnership with BMW that will see the technology giant and automotive leader work together on new connected car solutions. Microsoft, a longstanding BMW partner, will integrate its Skype app into BMW's products.

Microsoft's new business apps make customer management easier By James Walker Microsoft has announced three new apps to help small businesses find and engage with customers. The products are part of its Office 365 cloud subscription service. They let you advertise your firm online, manage email campaigns and send invoices.

'Microsoft 365' combines Windows and Office into a single service By James Walker Microsoft has unveiled a new headline cloud subscription offering, "Microsoft 365." It brings together the company's existing Office 365 cloud productivity software with Windows 10 Enterprise edition. It's an all-in-one approach to software licensing.

Microsoft unveils new YouTube rival for business customers By James Walker Microsoft has launched a video streaming service for enterprise customers of its Office 365 cloud platform. Microsoft Stream is described as an "intelligent enterprise video service" that's built to give companies a robust online video platform.

Microsoft shutting down its Docs.com Office file sharing site By James Walker Microsoft has announced that it is shutting down Docs.com, the company's little-known file sharing site that lets you upload and publish Office documents. The closure comes shortly after a major security incident on the site.

Microsoft's ambitious Slack competitor now available worldwide By James Walker Microsoft has officially launched Teams, its enterprise messaging service designed to rival highly-popular app Slack. Teams is now available to every Office 365 subscriber on all devices, giving it an immediate potential audience of millions of people.

Microsoft's 'premium' subscription email service launches in U.S. By James Walker Microsoft has officially launched its Outlook.com Premium subscription-based email service. It offers an enhanced version of Outlook's online experience, including an ad-free inbox, improved sharing and the option of using a personalised domain.

Microsoft's Slack rival is finally here By James Walker Microsoft has officially introduced Teams, a new chat app for the workplace that's built to rival Slack. Slack has experienced extraordinary adoption, pushing existing solutions including Microsoft's Skype out of use. Teams is the company's response.

Microsoft offers ad-free email with an address of your choice By James Walker Microsoft has quietly launched a subscription version of its Outlook.com email service in preview form. For $19.95 a year, customers get access to five personalised email addresses, an ad-free inbox and more advanced sharing options for online content.

Microsoft Word to become your writing assistant with new update By James Walker Microsoft has announced two major new features coming to Word in an upcoming update. Researcher enables you to research information with automatic citation from within Word. Editor is a personal "writing assistant" to improve your writing style.

Microsoft releases major Outlook.com update with new features By James Walker Microsoft has released a substantial update to its Outlook.com online email client. The web app now has a redesigned interface and a similar level of functionality to the business version included with Office 365.

Review: A new look and more ideas — Word 2016 from Office 365 By Paul Wallis Sydney - Word 2016 is part of Microsoft Office 365. It’s a familiar version of Word, following on from Word 2010. It’s OK, but also a bit hard to get used to, in some ways. I found that out the hard way, but there are some strong positives, too.

Next Microsoft Office includes the return of 'Dark' theme By James Walker In recent weeks, various bits of information on the next Windows have been circulated but Microsoft's other big money-spinner, Office, has remained hidden in the background. Yesterday that changed however as some images of the next Office appeared online.

Microsoft offers 1TB cloud storage to its Office 365 customers By Nicole Weddington In an attempt to attract more Office 365 users, Microsoft is offering more Cloud storage to sweeten the deal. One terabyte of free storage will be packaged with every Office 365 subscription.

Microsoft uses South Korea ferry disaster to promote Office 365 By James Walker Microsoft South Korea has seized the recent sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol to promote the company's Office 365 in a particularly tasteless piece of promotion.

Microsoft sends Office 365 into the cloud Special By Jack Kapica Software giant stresses a compromise approach that allows users to store their data both locally and on the Web. Not surprisingly, competitor Google immediately condemned the product

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